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Malachi256  1 star
Posts: 158
Registered: 2002-11-12 17:33:28
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I found an odd common trait to my disconnects
Unstruck posted:
Thought this was gonna be about the alt-tab disconnects. If I'm flying somewhere, manually or on a flightpath, and I alt-tab out while in full-screen mode, 99% of the time I am disconnected from the game during the flight.

Googled it, known bug, and the only solution was to play the game in full-screen windowed mode. That causes a drop of like 10 fps for me, which I don't like lol, so I don't bother.

But thanks for the warning Arc.



Wow, that's been my experience exactly. Now playing in windowed mode, mostly cause I'm grinding archaeology, which means I've got lots of flight time to surf the web or w/e. The biggest problem with the DC, especially on my wife's computer, is the very long load-in to get back in the game. Her's lasts upwards of 3-4 minutes sometimes, totally ridiculous.

 

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Foojo  1 star
Posts: 147
Registered: 2008-8-18 16:16:47
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I found an odd common trait to my disconnects
I held off a few days before buying Cata, and once I used the key for my account, and it downloaded or did some data stuff, I started crashing occasionally.

 

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Arcilite_I  4 stars
Title: VN's Most Wanted
Posts: 1,260
Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I found an odd common trait to my disconnects
Foojo posted:
I held off a few days before buying Cata, and once I used the key for my account, and it downloaded or did some data stuff, I started crashing occasionally.



I've had intermittent crashes across multiple machines over the years. That is more what this was about, narrowing down a client problem. That said, when the 4.0 patch dropped, everyone I know who plays on the east coast had persistent and random dcs for the first few weeks. One of my cousins is still getting pwnt like 10x a night, even after changing from wireless to a hard line.

EDIT: I only narrowed it down during WotLK.

 

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kyrv  2 stars
Title: Lord Logicus
Posts: 263
Registered: 2002-1-31 13:09:58
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I found an odd common trait to my disconnects
Cawlin posted:
Arcilite_I posted:
Turned sound off in options, materialized with the usual second or two long loading screen.


Soooooo, is this a hardware issue? lol



Sounds like it must be (a hardware issue).


I have had issues with my sound getting "stuck" and repeating the same sound endlessly until I restart the game (not just log out/in). I use on-board sound rather than a sound card.


Before that I had other issues with disconnects that would persist until I rebooted the game entirely - eventually I would just keep a second instance of the game running at the login screen so that when I got one of these disconnects, I could just re-log in, boot myself off of the other instance and get back into the game in the usual few seconds as opposed to the 5 minute delay.



Same here. One game I just played with the sound I think until the game told everyone a fix in the settings.

 

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